Keb'Mo'开始了他的音乐生涯，在一支calypso乐队中演奏钢鼓。在1970年代和1980年代，他继续在各种蓝调和后备乐队中演出。他于1970年代初通过R＆B乐队与Jefferson Airplane小提琴家Papa John Creach一起开始录制。摩尔（Core）在摩尔21岁时雇用了他。摩尔出现在Creach的四张专辑中：Filthy！，为您演奏我的小提琴，我是小提琴手和摇滚父亲。凯伯·莫（Keb'Mo）的第一张金唱片被收录为一首歌“吉特·提德勒（Git Fiddler）”，他与帕帕·约翰（Papa John）共同创作了杰斐逊·星舰 ' 红章鱼在1975年的 Billboard 200上排名第一。
凯布·莫（Keb'Mo'）曾在乔治·沃尔夫（George C. Wolfe）的音乐剧《朋克》（Spunk）的多个版本中登台演出（改编自佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿（Zora Neale Hurston）的三个短篇小说。他的角色“吉他人”在他还是“小鸡街人”的学习期间就学习了，他在表演的同时演奏了所有实际音乐。吉他手的角色是其舞台角色的基础。
1994年，Keb'Mo'发行了自己的同名专辑，即Keb'Mo'，其中收录了罗伯特·约翰逊（Robert Johnson）的两张专辑，“ Come On In My Kitchen ”和“ Kind Heartd Woman Blues ”。马丁·斯科塞斯（Martin Scorsese）的迷你连续剧《蓝调》中，凯布·莫（Keb'Mo'）说他深受约翰逊的影响。Keb'是长滩布鲁斯音乐节最佳新布鲁斯歌手的亚军，在那里，他被史蒂夫·拉维尔（Steve LaVere）发现，后者是整个罗伯特·约翰逊（Robert Johnson）歌集（1992–93）的出版商。
Keb'Mo的同名专辑在Sony音乐的复古复兴部门Okeh Records发行。
1996年，他发行了第二张专辑《Just Like You》，其中包含了十二首充满Delta节奏的歌曲。他凭借这张专辑获得了自己的首个格莱美奖，其中杰克逊·布朗（Jackson Browne）和邦妮·拉伊特（Bonnie Raitt）参加了客座演出。
1997年6月10日，摩尔在电视节目《Sessions at West 54th》上演出。他与音乐家Laval Belle一起鼓演奏，Reggie McBride演奏贝斯，Joellen Friedkin演奏键盘，演奏十四首歌曲，其中有些来自他的每张专辑。布鲁斯钢琴家约翰博士也出场了。该会议（在纽约西部第54届会议：现场录音）在电视上播放，但直到2000年下半年才以DVD发行。
1998年，摩尔参加了德国摇滚乐手彼得·马法（Peter Maffay）的多艺术家项目“遇见（Begegnungen）” 。他们在专辑中演唱了Mo的新版本“ Am I Wrong”，并于当年晚些时候在舞台上巡回演出的30场音乐会中演唱了更多歌曲，并录制于1999年初的现场专辑Begenungen Live中。在Begegnungen专辑和巡回演唱会上，Maffay 是Sonny Landreth和来自世界各地的更多艺术家。
在2013年Crossroads吉他节的第一天晚上，Keb'Mo'与Booker T. Jones，Steve Cropper，Blake Mills和Matt“ Guitar” Murphy进行了演出。Keb'Mo'之后与主持人Dan Aykroyd一起演唱了两首歌。在音乐节的第二晚，凯布·莫（Keb'Mo'）与泰姬·玛哈（Taj Mahal）进行了表演。
在2014年初，他获得了三项格莱美奖的最佳美国专辑（BLUESAmericana），最佳美国Roots表演奖（“ The Old Me Better”）和最佳非古典专辑（BLUESAmericana）。 5月，他与Metallica一起参加了诺基亚在MusicCare举办的第十届年度MAP基金收益音乐会，以表彰Ozzy Osbourne和Jeff Greenberg。 2014年10月，他在摇滚名人堂第19届年度音乐大师系列颁奖典礼上向Everly Brothers致敬，并在11月与Bonnie Raitt一同向Mavis Staples 致敬，格雷格·阿曼（Gregg Allman），泰姬·玛哈（Taj Mahal）和格蕾丝·波特（Grace Potter）在芝加哥礼堂剧院举行的庆祝斯台普斯一生和事业的活动，以纪念她75岁生日。也是在2014年末，他在杰克逊·布朗（Jackson Browne）致敬专辑《看着你：对杰克逊·布朗（ Jackson Browne）的致敬》中出演。
Kevin Roosevelt Moore (born October 3, 1951), known as Keb' Mo', is an American blues musician and five-time Grammy Award winner. He is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter, living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been described as "a living link to the seminal Delta blues that travelled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America". His post-modern blues style is influenced by many eras and genres, including folk, rock, jazz, pop and country. The moniker "Keb Mo" was coined by his original drummer, Quentin Dennard, and picked up by his record label as a "street talk" abbreviation of his given name.
Early life
From early on, Keb' Mo's parents, who were from Louisiana and Texas, instilled him with a great appreciation for the blues and gospel music. By adolescence, he was an accomplished guitarist.
Career
Keb' Mo' started his musical career playing the steel drums in a calypso band. He moved on to play in a variety of blues and backup bands throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He first started recording in the early 1970s with Jefferson Airplane violinist Papa John Creach through an R&B group. Creach hired him when Moore was 21 years old; Moore appeared on four of Creach's albums: Filthy!, Playing My Fiddle for You, I'm the Fiddle Man and Rock Father. Keb' Mo's first gold record was received for a song, "Git Fiddler", which he co-wrote with Papa John on Jefferson Starship's Red Octopus. Red Octopus hit number one on the Billboard 200 in 1975.
Moore was also a staff writer for A&M Records, and arranged demos for Almo – Irving music. Keb' Mo's debut, Rainmaker, was released on Chocolate City Records, a subsidiary of Casablanca Records, in 1980. He was further immersed in the blues with his long stint in the Whodunit Band, headed by Bobby "Blue" Bland producer Monk Higgins. Moore jammed with Albert Collins and Big Joe Turner and emerged as an inheritor of a guarded tradition and as a genuine original.
Keb' Mo' has appeared on stage (1990–1993) in several versions of the musical Spunk, by George C. Wolfe, an adaptation of three short stories by Zora Neale Hurston. His character, Guitar Man, learned while he was an understudy to "Chick Streetman", played all the actual music in the play while performing. The character of Guitar Man is the foundation for his stage persona.
In 1994, Keb' Mo' released his self-titled album, Keb' Mo', which featured two Robert Johnson covers, "Come On In My Kitchen" and "Kind Hearted Woman Blues".In the Martin Scorsese miniseries The Blues, Keb' Mo' states that he was greatly influenced by Johnson. Keb' was the runner-up for Best New Blues Artist at The Long Beach Blues Festival, where he was spotted by Steve LaVere, who owns the publishing for the entire Robert Johnson song catalogue (1992–93).
Keb' Mo's self-titled album was released on Okeh Records, a vintage revival division of Sony Music.
In 1996, he released Just Like You, his second album, which featured twelve songs full of Delta rhythms. He won his first Grammy Award for this album, which featured guest appearances from Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt.
On June 10, 1997, Moore performed on the television program Sessions at West 54th. He joined musicians Laval Belle on drums, Reggie McBride playing bass, and Joellen Friedkin on keyboards to perform fourteen songs, some from each of his albums. Blues pianist Dr. John also made a guest appearance. This session (known as Sessions at West 54th: Recorded Live in New York) was shown on television, but was not released as a DVD until late 2000.
In 1998, Moore was involved in the multi-artist project "Begegnungen (Encounter)" by German rock musician Peter Maffay. They performed together a new version of Mo's "Am I Wrong" on the album and some more songs in the 30 concerts at the arena tour later the same year, documented on the live album Begenungen Live, released in early 1999. A further guest of Maffay at the Begegnungen album and tour was Sonny Landreth and many more artists from around the world.
Slow Down, his next album, was released in 1998 and featured twelve songs. It earned him a second Grammy Award. The album begins with the song "Muddy Water", a tribute to Muddy Waters. It also features a song entitled "Rainmaker", which had been released previously on his first album, eighteen years prior.
His fourth album, The Door, was released in 2000. The same year, Keb' Mo' released Big Wide Grin, a children's album featuring many songs from Moore's own childhood, along with some newer children's songs and some by Moore himself. In 2001, he appeared on Sesame Street with Kermit the Frog, Grover, Elmo, and other muppets performing the song "Everybody Be Yo'self". The album includes an original arrangement of "America the Beautiful", which he performed years later on the 2006 series finale of The West Wing, "Tomorrow", in which he appears as himself to perform the song at the inauguration of President Matt Santos.
In 2003, Martin Scorsese collaborated with many blues musicians including Keb' Mo' to put together a series of films entitled The Blues. Following its release, several albums were released in accordance, some were compilations, some new collaborations, and Keb' Mo' released an album in the series featuring a handful of existing recordings from Keb' Mo' to The Door.
On February 10, 2004, he released Keep It Simple which earned him a third Grammy Award, again in the contemporary blues genre. Later that year, he released his sixth studio album, Peace... Back by Popular Demand.
Moore released Suitcase, on June 13, 2006. His touring band following the release included Reggie McBride on bass, Les Falconer III on drums, Jeff Paris on keyboards, and Clayton Gibb on guitar.
On October 20, 2009, Keb' Mo' released the live album, Live and Mo'.
Keb' Mo' performing with Dan Aykroyd at the 2013 Crossroads Guitar Festival, April 12, 2013
At the 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival, Keb' Mo' performed an acoustic set with Stefan Grossman and an electric set with Vince Gill, Albert Lee, James Burton, Earl Klugh and Sheryl Crow. He joined the finale with most of the day's performers.
On August 2, 2011, Keb' Mo' released The Reflection.
Keb' Mo' performed at a White House event titled "In Performance at the White House: Red, White and Blues" on February 21, 2012. On February 24, 2012, many of the same performers, including Keb' Mo, Gary Clark Jr., Buddy Guy, Warren Haynes, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, paid tribute to Hubert Sumlin at the "Howlin' For Hubert" memorial concert at the Apollo Theater in New York City.
On the first night of the 2013 Crossroads Guitar Festival, Keb' Mo' performed a set with Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Blake Mills and Matt "Guitar" Murphy. Keb' Mo' later performed two songs with emcee Dan Aykroyd. On the second night of the festival, Keb' Mo' performed with Taj Mahal.
In early 2014, he was nominated for three Grammy Awards for Best Americana Album (BLUESAmericana), Best American Roots Performance ("The Old Me Better") and Best Engineered Album Non-Classical (BLUESAmericana). In May, he appeared alongside Metallica at MusicCare' 10th Annual MAP Fund Benefit Concert at Nokia honoring Ozzy Osbourne and Jeff Greenberg. In October 2014 he honored the Everly Brothers, at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 19th annual Music Masters Series, and in November he honored Mavis Staples alongside Bonnie Raitt, Gregg Allman, Taj Mahal and Grace Potter, at Chicago's Auditorium Theatre for celebration of Staples' life and career in honor of her 75th birthday. Also in late 2014 he was featured on a Jackson Browne tribute album, Looking into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne.
In 2015, his album BLUESAmericana won the 'Contemporary Blues Album' category at the Blues Music Awards.
He has been supportive of charity Playing For Change since its inception and recently appeared in a video with Keith Richards' singing Bob Marley's "Get Up, Stand Up". He appeared on two tracks from the Playing For Change: Songs Around The World that was released on June 17. The album had over 180 musicians from 31 countries, including Keith Richards, Sara Bareilles, David Hidalgo, Cesar Rosas, and Taj Mahal. He donates 5% of BLUESAmericana to the charity.
In late 2015, he performed at a special concert hosted by Barack Obama called "A Celebration of American Creativity: In Performance at the White House". It was shot and filmed in the East Room of the White House. Other performers included Smokey Robinson, James Taylor, Buddy Guy, Queen Latifah, Usher, Trombone Shorty, MC Lyte, Audra McDonald, Esperanza Spalding, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Carol Burnett. It commemorated the 50th anniversary of the founding of Lyndon B. Johnson's National Foundation on the Arts through the Humanities Act.
Keb' Mo' released a live album, Keb' Mo' Live – That Hot Pink Blues Album on April 15, on Kind of Blue Music/RED Distribution.
Keb' Mo' partnered up with Taj Mahal to release a joint album, TajMo, on May 5, 2017. The album has guest appearances by Bonnie Raitt, Joe Walsh, Sheila E., and Lizz Wright, and has six original compositions and five covers, from artists and bands like John Mayer and The Who. The album won the 2018 Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album.
Keb' Mo' performs in 2020.
In June 2019, Keb' Mo' released a studio album, Oklahoma, with guest contributions from Rosanne Cash, Jaci Velasquez, Robert Randolph, and Taj Mahal, with a duet with Robbie Brooks Moore (his wife).
Keb' Mo' played the Glastonbury Festival in June 2019 followed by UK and European dates in July 2019.
Keb' Mo' performed at the 2019 Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum concert and induction ceremony.
Keb' Mo' won the Grammy Award for "Best Americana Album" in 2020 for Oklahoma. He was one of the headliners at the 2020 Mahindra Blues Festival in Mumbai, India.
Keb' Mo' uses several types of guitars, including electric guitars, acoustic guitars and resonator guitars. He has a preference for red guitars, as he says on his website: "I have a history with red guitars. My first electric was a red guitar." He mostly plays on a red custom Fender Stratocaster that features two single-coil pickups, and one humbucker and is much modified from a regular Stratocaster model. On stage, he prefers a red Hamer guitar with Gibson P-100 pickups. Two of his electric guitars were lost in the 2010 Nashville flood: an Epiphone Sheraton and a Danelectro Selectomatic.
He owns a variety of acoustic and resonator guitars, including a Gibson artist model, a guitar made for him by James Goodall, a National Style N, a National Resorocket, and a Gibson ES-335-shaped resonator guitar with a P-90 pickup that he purchased in a Nashville club and had repaired.
专辑列表：
1994 - Keb' Mo'
1996 - Just Like You
1998 - Slow Down
2000 - The Door
2001 - Big Wide Grin
2003 - Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues
2004 - Keep It Simple
2004 - Peace...Back By Popular Demand
2006 - Suitcase
2009 - Live & Mo'
2011 - The Reflection
2014 - Bluesamericana
2016 - Live - That Hot Pink Blues Album (2CD)
2017 - Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo' - TajMo
2019 - Oklahoma
2019 - Moonlight, Mistletoe & You [24-88.2]
